时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
a. recurrens radialis
ACMUI (Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes)
angular semi-major axis
area of relative dullness
assurnasirpal ii
barrels per calendar day (BPSD)
bibiofilm
bonded sand
Bromat
cantonment
car lease
casualty evacuation
cat-stairs
change temperature hardening
character string function
chemoy process
compensatory monetary policy
corporate shipowner
District Commissioner
elastic sols
extension code character
extra-fine grinding
failure correction time
Fairbank
federal revenue enhancement
field rivetting
fimbriate bodies
form maintenance work space
Frerichs' theory
fudge sauce
game structure
genus coraciass
get something off your chest
gogga
Hastiere
Heidegger
hotellings
Hunter Ra.
hydrazoites
hydrogeological system
IBRMR
incurvatures
inter-relatedness
intra-atom
iron peptonate
Isotropis
jullunder
JUNGBLUTH
later(onset)nephrotic(syndrome)
militiaman
molybdenum free steel
movable decking
mutual alignment
nephelium lappaceum l. var. topengii (merr) how et ho
Niegowonice
Obraztsovo-Travino
output at the draw-bar
oxidizer loading flexible hose
oxygen flush valve
partially loaded area
peltigera didactyla
performance log
peritectoid transformation
perney
pettinger
photoluminescence
photoreaction
polar wind divide
Pontevedra
precaudal vertebrae
precipitation sequence
Prikaspiyskaya Nizmennost'
reentry system environmental protection
reflection, multiple
rence
repetitioning
reynolds shear stress
ring-tails
roll of honour
run-of-station
Sangaku-Mamushi
schumanns
shine up to
single time-shared system
Songdan
steam engine
surface finish measuring tool
Taiping Royal Prescriptions
telegraphic toll
tell sth. apart
tradesman
transistorized flip-flop
transverse pressure
two pin driven nut
two-axis autopilot
Universal Time Coordinated System
us keyboard
usuress
Viola mongolica
viverricula indicas
watershrew
wind-toxicity syndrome